1865: Congress approves the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery.
1923: Novelist Norman Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey
1939: George Burns is sentenced for buying jewelry from a smuggler. Rather than receiving the maximum 18-year sentence, he was fined $8,000 and given a one-year suspended sentence.
1958: The United States Army launches Explorer 1 into Earth's orbit. The first U.S. satellite, it is used to study cosmic rays.
1962: Willie Mays, known as the "Say Hey Kid," signs a contract reportedly worth $90,000, a record at the time.
1968: Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy.
1990: McDonald's opens its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, serving more than 30,000 customers in one day.
2004: The spacecraft Opportunity rolls onto the surface of Mars to explore an area called Eagle Crater. Scientists will discover that the planet once had vast amounts of liquid water.
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